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My husband I don't go to movies. I love them, but he is very critical and it kind of spoils them for me. So there are many movies in the past 20 years that I missed. We are spending two months in Prescott, AZ and they have a wonderful library with lots of movies on DVD. So I would like to know what movies from the last 15-20 years did you particularly like?
I did get the movie, Marty, that came out in 1956. I was in high school and after a bunch of my friends and I saw the movie, everyone started calling me Marty and they still do today.
Not yet mentioned -
Tootsie - my favority comedy, hysterical, with Dustin Hoffman.
Out of Africa - Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. Nuff said.
Ghost - the Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, Whoppie Goldberg. Good thriller with lots of humor. Great Whoppie whose scenes at the seance are side-splitting funny.
Pride and Prejudice - with Keira Knightley. The best Darcy ever. I have watched this one several times. Worth buying.
Emma - with Gweneth Paltrow who is Emma. Great production, faithful to Jane Austen.
I, Claudius - TV Masterpiece Theatre series. Great if you like history, ancient Rome.
Foyles War - another TV Masterpiece Theatre series. WWII in southern England. PBS just finished running the fifth volumn of 3 episodes. Most have about 5 episodes. Start with the first series which is set in the early years of WWII, before the US entered. Fantastic series which traces DCS Foyle's crime solving through the war along with his life and the life of the town of Hastings.
The Pallisers - yet another MasterPiece Theatre epic. Based on Trollope's novels. Sweeping period piece, history, chick flick. Old enough that there are no closed captions.
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I haven't seen hardly any in the last 20 years! My favorites are Romeo and Juliet (Olivia Hussey) (first half only; I quit watching the second half, which I also did with GWTW! Decided it was better seeing the happier parts than crying all the time), GWTW, It Grows on Trees (that was hysterical, but hard to find, Irene Dunn), Topper, White Chicks (that one is in the last 20 years), My Man Godfrey, The Little Minister (my favorite Hepburn), Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Little Foxes, Dracula (Frank Langella), Eleni, Nosferatu (the creepiest of the creepy; it's silent), Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (Yves Montand; they're French with subtitles, but the best plots I have EVER seen. They are totally unforgettable), Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, Cinderella (Lesley Ann Warren), The Magnificent Seven (Great music, great scenery, Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen; how can you lose????), The Major and the Minor, She Devil (heeheeheehee), The Spiral STaircase (Dorothy McGuire--this one is FANTASTIC to watch late on a stormy night), Theatre of Blood (gory Vincent Price, but he is magnificent, and of course the goriness is fakey!).
But the absolute best thing would be to find Keeping Up Appearances and watch Hyacinth, who is my hero!!!
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In no particular order...
Imitation of Life (re-make with Lana Turner) - About two mothers, one White and one Black, and the issues they face raising their daughters. It has an absolutely heartbreaking ending...
Gone with the Wind - I love to see Scarlett lose Rhett. She never deserved him.
The Color Purple - I know every line in this movie by heart. Love it.
Steel Magnolias - Another tearjerker, and I know every line of it, too.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - I am a Dolly Parton fan, what can is say! I love her version of "I Will Always Love You," which she wrote.
Dreamgirls - Jennifer Hudson is incredible as Effie White. Eddie Murphy should have won the Oscar for portraying Jimmy Early. I watch it every time it comes on HBO. Guess I need to buy it.
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You can't beat movie's like Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. I like musicals and Barbara Streisand was good in Hello Dolly. Then there is The Sound of Music and The Music Man. I like all of Doris Day's movies, especially the ones with Rock Hudson. Of the most recent movies, my favorite is You've Got Mail with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. I love that movie, and have seen it a least 20 times. Also, another favorite is On Golden Pond with Kathryn Hepburn and Henry Fonda. I think I have all of Kathryn's movies. I prefer the older movies. I rarely go to the theater anymore. The movies they make today just don't interest me that much. The last movie I went to see was The DaVinci Code.
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mm, this is a no brainer for me. My very favorite of all time is Barb Striesand and Robert Redford in The Way We Were. I think it goes back to the 70s.
I also like stage plays that have been made into movies. We saw The King and I last weekend at Lawrence Welk and it was soooo good. Not any real famous actresses or actors but they were just awesome and had great voices. I'm taking my daughter and grandkids to see Phantom of the Opera in August at the Civic Theater, here. I like the movie version of Camelot, also one of my favorites.
Hope this helps. Have a great time in Prescott.
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